mono Elvis Presley question

Not exactly. Certainly nowhere near all.

Only the tracks recorded and mixed by Bill Porter at RCA Nashville were fold-downs. Which excludes any movie soundtrack songs, such as "Return to Sender." He monitored the fold-down live in the studio and balanced the mix with that. (And much of Elvis's catalog from that era has been remixed, too.)

Some additional compression might have been added in the mastering stage, but, yeah, the for the stuff that Bill Porter produced at RCA Studios Nashville, he said himself that every Elvis track he ever produced there was folded down for the mono.

He added an additional horn overdub for "Suspicious Minds" at a Las Vegas studio to the mono fold, which had to be dubbed live onto the finished mono mix because there were no remaining tracks on the multitrack tape. So all stereo versions of "Suspicious Minds" with the 45's horn overdub are digital-era sync-ups... the horn was digitally isolated from the mono 45 and pasted over the stereo mix.

Check out an '80s import CD frm BMG called "Elvis Forever: 32 Hits." It has many of his '60s hits in true mono, including "Return to Sender" and "Devil in Disguise," the latter of which was not a Bill Porter mix either.

I just found a WLP of "Long Legged Girl," which, while not a Top 40 hit, is certainly a dedicated mix - it actually has some drive and power to it (the bass part is especially prominent) unlike the original stereo mix.

Bumped. Anyone know of where on CD Are You Lonesome Tonight and Stuck On You are in mono?